Word: levies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commandos into Jordan after an attack in Israel's Negev desert, landed troops from choppers fore and aft of the guerrillas and killed five of them in the ensuing firefight. While Israeli and Jordanian troops traded fire in daily duels across the muddy Jordan River, Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol observed ominously that "any form of war and incitement to war will oblige us to repel, deter, and take the battle to the enemies' gates and beyond." That might mean new invasion thrusts toward Damascus, Amman and Cairo if the commando infiltrations continue...
Progressive leaders met with Premier Levi Eshkol, petitioned the government to grant Reform Judaism wider legal status in Israel, demanding that 1) Reform rabbis be permitted to officiate at weddings and funerals, 2) conversions to Judaism carried out by Reform rabbis be legally recognized, and 3) the government provide financial aid to Reform groups, as it does to Orthodox congregations...
...park behind the city's Museum of Fine Arts. Last week they held a typically unorthodox, nonlegal wedding presided over by a minister from the hippies' own Neo-American Church. The bride wore printed culottes and a necklace of appleseeds; the barefoot groom was in tattered Levi's and a Nehru jacket. After the ceremony, they danced to a throbbing rock band, then left for a protracted honeymoon on the Common...
Some have denounced the anniversary events, fearing that they will create added tension. For Israel to go through with the parade, said U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, "could well have an adverse effect" on peace efforts in the Middle East. But the government of Premier Levi Eshkol sees the parade as a means of keeping alive the patriotic fervor of last summer. Most of the people approach the anniversary in a mood of elation and with a new sense of security born of their enlarged borders. But they also seem to suffer anxiety over the fact that nothing has really...
...worldwide outcry that may just save them from extinction. Newspapers from Rio de Janeiro to Paris and Washington focused on their problems. An open letter asking help for the Indians was sent to Brazilian President Arthur da Costa e Silva by a group of French anthropologists, including Claude Levi-Strauss, who set forth his philosophy of structuralism in Tristes Tropiques, which he wrote after studying the Brazilian Indian (TIME Essay, June 30, 1967). Meeting in Mexico, the sixth Interamerican Indigenist Congress demanded protection for Brazil's Indians, most of whom constituted the last primitive tribes outside New Guinea...